Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. is right to experiment with mopeds
STILL GETTING used to the electric scooters zooming around D.C. streets? Better gear up. The mopeds are coming.
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Mona Charen in National Review: In Defense of Washington, D.C.
The city gets a bad rap from outsiders, but there’s really no better place to be.
Danica Petroshius in The Hill is Home: City: Do Your Job. Protect Our Children.
I’m used to being in DC public schools, not just as a parent.
Conor P. Williams on The Century Foundation blog: What Can D.C.’s Universal Pre-K Program Teach Us?
The current field of presidential candidates loves talking early education. Big K–12 policy ideas are in short supply, but every major candidate looking to challenge the president in 2020 favors moving towards universal pre-K across the…
Jeff Jacoby in The Boston Globe: For good reason, statehood for D.C. has always been a nonstarter
Most state license plates bear mottos that are uplifting (“The Spirit of America,” “Live Free or Die,”), descriptive (“10,000 Lakes,” “America’s Dairyland”), or welcoming (“Aloha State,” “Great Faces, Great Places”). Only the District of…
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C.’s history serving people with disabilities is full of mistakes. It can’t afford to make another.
WHEN A federal judge in 2017 ended 40 years of court supervision of the District’s care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, it was hailed as historic. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) could rightly feel satisfaction in…
Tyra Wilkes in The Post: Black mamas matter
After years of alleged malpractice and the unfortunate passing of too many mamas and their babies, the District saw fit to close the only obstetrics ward east of the river.
Diego Zuluaga in The Post: A tool meant to help minorities buy homes is instead speeding up gentrification in D.C.
More than 50 years after the passage of comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation, American cities remain highly segregated. The nation’s capital is a glaring example: The D.C. area’s African American residents are concentrated in the…
Colbert King in The Post: Are D.C. residents really ready to live in a ‘sex tourist destination’?
In 2017, the D.C. police made 216 prostitution-related arrests, which includes solicitation and pandering. In 2018, prostitution-related arrests more than doubled, reaching 519. Year-to-date in 2019, there have been 718 such arrests.
Washington Post Editorial Board: D.C. has gone too far on criminal-justice reform
POLICYMAKERS ACROSS the country have assailed mass incarceration, including by enacting measures intended to slash overlong prison sentences. That’s aimed at correcting real problems, including the risk that lengthy incarceration in harsh…
Tina Frundt and Yasmin Vafa in The Post: There’s a way to legalize prostitution without putting women at risk
Several D.C. Council members have introduced legislation that would fully decriminalize the commercial sex trade in the District, including acts of pimping, sex buying and operating brothels. It’s necessary and long overdue to…
Colbert King in The Post: Let’s try keeping kids out of caskets
“This is not normal,” the Rev. Thomas Lee Cardwell Jr. said in his eulogy at Allen Chapel AME Church this week for Karon Brown, the 11-year-old who was gunned down on July 18. “Something is wrong in Washington, D.C.”
Bo Shuff in The Hill: Why Washingtonians need to have statehood for District of Columbia
The residents of the District of Columbia are equal to all other residents of the United States. We pay taxes, serve on juries and in wars, participate in our communities, go to work and run businesses, and raise our families. However,…
Ramona Edelin in HillRag: Provide Excess Space to Public Charter Schools
An important new campaign to boost public education in the District of Columbia is underway. Scandalously, while there are 12,000 students on waitlists for public charter schools, the city owns around one million square feet of surplus…
Theresa Vargas in The Post: Are you listening, Mayor Bowser? The District’s disability community is hoping you are.
“They will be hurt. Their families will be hurt. They will die.”
Denise Robbins in The Post: Corruption is drowning the District. Rebuild integrity with climate leadership.
This month in the District, flash floods came and went, but the flood of corruption controversies continues to flow. This could be terrible news for D.C.’s flagship climate policy.
Bob Williams in The Post: D.C. must not backtrack on its improvement in care for people with disabilities
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) should immediately reverse the decision by the D.C. Department on Disability Services to abruptly cancel its 13-year contract with Georgetown University to provide health-care services to hundreds of people…
Michael D. Brown in The Washington Post: The D.C. statehood initiative needs an infusion of cash
It’s counterintuitive to think that the residents of the capital of the world’s greatest democracy lack democracy. If we want Americans to support us, we need to explain why. We need resources and a strategy.
Washington Post Editorial Board: The fatal shooting of an 11-year-old is unimaginable. So, too, is the recent violence in D.C.
“IT’S UNCLEAR whether or not the 11-year-old was the intended target. It’s unimaginable that an 11-year-old would ever be an intended target, but we have not ruled that out at this point.” That was D.C. Police Chief Peter Newsham on Monday…
Washington Post Editorial Board: The controversy surrounding D.C.’s sports betting contract is achingly unsurprising
THE LATEST controversy over the District’s award of a lucrative sole-source contract is achingly unsurprising. D.C. has established a procurement system that is steeped in politics and parochialism, with the checkered history to show for…